During his propaganda
performance at Columbia University in New York City on September 24, 2007,
Iran's anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
declared: "... assuming this [the Holocaust] happened, what does it have
to do with the Palestinian people?"

Actually, quite a lot.

Nazi Germany could not have
annihilated one-third of the Jewish people from the face of the Earth without
the enthusiastic collaboration of its ideological allies among the
Austrians, the Swiss, the French, the Italians, the Romanians, the Poles, the
Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Estonians, the Hungarians, the Czechs, the
Slovaks, the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims of Bosnia, the Muslims of Kosovo,
the Bulgarians, the Belarusians, the Ukrainians, the Dutch, the Belgians, the
Norwegians, the Danes, the Swedes, the Icelanders and, yes, the Arabs,
including the “Palestinian” Arabs (with a large assist from Great
Britain, tacitly supported by the United States).

In 1920, the League of Nations
established a system of Mandates for the temporary governance, pending
independence, of those non-sovereign territories, including the non-sovereign
territory of Palestine, which had been occupied by the Ottoman Empire for
approximately 400 years (with brief interruptions) prior to World War I.The League of Nations assigned its
Mandate for Palestine to Great Britain as Mandatory trustee of that
territory.The declared purpose of
the Mandate for Palestine was the reconstitution of the Jewish National Home in
the biblical Land of Israel through, inter alia, the facilitation by Great
Britain of mass Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine.

At the outset, the Arab
population of the western portion of Mandatory Palestine (i.e., the Land of
Israel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River), as well as the
populations of the larger Arab and (non-Arab) Muslim worlds, violently opposed
the planned resurrection of the historic Jewish Commonwealth, but this
opposition sharply escalated after Jewish immigration from Germany to western
Mandatory Palestine dramatically increased in the wake of Adolf Hitler’s
appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933.

That same year, in reaction
to the spike in Jewish immigration from Nazi Germany, the
“Palestinian” Arabs perpetrated terror attacks against
“Palestinian” Jews as well as British Mandatory authorities via mob
violence, firebombings, shootings and knifings.

Soon Nazi Germany made
common cause with the “Palestinian” Arabs.In particular, the 1936 - 1939 orgy
of terrorism perpetrated by the Arabs against their Jewish neighbors and
British Mandatory authorities was financed by Nazi Germany. The
Nazis, in addition to providing clandestine funding and armaments to the
leadership of that “Palestinian” Arab jihad, also infiltrated its
agents into the western portion of Mandatory Palestine in order to provide
tactical support to the jihad (which the Arabs denominated as the “Great
Arab Revolt”).

The leader of the
“Palestinian” Arab jihad was Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (also known
as Haj Amin al-Husseni).He had
previously been instrumental in instigating both the April 1920 and the August
1929 “Palestinian” Arab pogroms against “Palestinian”
Jews.As the British-appointed
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (also head of the Supreme Muslim Council) and as the
Arab-appointed Chairman of the Arab Higher Committee, al-Husseini was the
paramount spiritual and political leader of the Arabs of the western portion of
Mandatory Palestine.However, in
1937, after Mandatory authorities sought his arrest on account of his role in
planning and implementing the “Great Arab Revolt”, he fled
Mandatory Palestine and eventually reached Nazi Germany, in the interim helping
to establish several Muslim Nazi battalions in Bosnia and Kosovo (which
participated in the brutal deportation of local Jews to various death camps),
assisting in the creation of the short-lived Nazi Arab government in
Iraq on April 1, 1941 (which, at that time, had a substantial Jewish
population), employing Nazi propaganda to instigate a two-day pogrom by Iraqi
Muslims against Iraqi Jews commencing on June 1, 1941 (known as the “Farhoud”, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of
Jews, the maiming of thousands of Jews, and the destruction of thousands of
Jewish homes and businesses in replication of Nazi Germany’s prior
two-day pogrom against Jews residing in Germany and Austria, known as
“Kristallnacht”, which began on November 9, 1938) and becoming one
of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s personal advisors on the annihilation
of the Jewish people during World War II.During his stay in Nazi Germany, al-Husseini broadcast Nazi propaganda
in Arabic (via Radio Zeissen) to the countries of the
Middle East, repeatedly declaring, inter alia, that World Jewry was the common
enemy of Islam and Germany.In
recognition of his ongoing services to Nazi Germany, al-Husseini received the
rank of SS-Gruppenführer;and Hitler honorifically referred to him
as “die arabischen Führer”
(“the Arab Führer”).After the War, he was given asylum in Egypt (where he was a co-founder
of the League of Arab States, commonly known as the “Arab League”),
and then in Lebanon.

To this Day, al-Husseini
remains an inspirational and aspirational hero to “Palestinian”
Arabs (including those “Palestinian” Arabs who, due to their
Israeli citizenship, are sometimes referred to as “Israeli”
Arabs).For example, on January 4,
2013, during a televised speech given to members of the dominant Fatah faction
of the Palestine Liberation Organization celebrating the 48th anniversary of
the terrorist organization’s founding, Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas praised al-Husseini and exhorted his audience to emulate his
ideology and conduct.In late
February 2014, the “Israeli” Arab student group “Watan” (meaning: “[Arab] Nation”)
sponsored a two-day photographic exhibit at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
called “Pictures From Across Palestine”, which included several
captioned pictures lauding al-Husseini.On April 11, 2018 (being the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance
Day), the Palestinian Authority held an anti-Israel conference in its capital
city, Ramallah, dominated by a gigantic banner featuring the likeness of
al-Husseini.

Hitler cultivated Muslim
and Arab favor.He permitted German
Muslims to become and remain Nazi Party members throughout the War.He also declared that Arabs were
“honorary Aryans”.

Moreover, after the War, in
recognition of this bond, thousands of Nazi war criminals sought and obtained
safe haven in Arab countries, took Arab names, converted to Islam and obtained
respected positions in Arab governments.For example, after the War, Egypt sheltered, among other Nazi war
criminals, Hussein Farid (formerly:Aribet Heim, a Nazi medical doctor who
tortured and experimented on Jewish prisoners at the Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald,
and Mauthausen death camps; he became an Egyptian police doctor), Mahmoud Saleh
(formerly: Nazi propagandist Alfred Zingler; he
joined the Egyptian Information Ministry), Omar Amin (formerly:Nazi propagandist Johann von Leers; he
joined the Egyptian Information Ministry), Ali Bin Keshir
(formerly:Mauthausen death camp
guard Wilhelm Boerner; he joined the Egyptian Interior Ministry and became an
advisor to the Palestine Liberation Front) and El Hussein (formerly: Franz Bartel,
assistant Gestapo chief in Katowice, Poland; he joined the Egyptian Information
Ministry).

Declassified information
from British and German archives confirm the close relationship that developed
between Nazi Germany and the “Palestinian” Arabs during the jihad
of 1936 - 1939, as coordinated by Nazi Germany’s (pre-World War II)
embassy and consulates in western Mandatory Palestine. Reproduced below is the
full text of an article from ynetnews.com, the English-language website of the
Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot, published on May
7, 2006, that summarizes and excerpts this information, as well as reveals the
extent to which British policy on Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine was
negatively influenced by growing Nazi-Arab affinity:

Nazis
‘shipped arms to Palestinians’

British
National Archives unveil presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine,
working closely with Palestinian leaders

By:
Yaakov Lappin, ynetnew.com, 05.07.06

Historical
documents in Britain’s
National Archives in London
show that Nazi Germany attempted to ship arms to Palestinian forces in the
1930s.

A
British Foreign Office report from 1939 reports of “news of a consignment
of arms from Germany, sent
via Turkey and addressed to
Ibn Saud (king of Saudi Arabia),
but really intended for the Palestine
insurgents.” Britain’s
chief military officer in Mandatory Palestine also noted reports
“regarding import of German arms at intervals for some years now.”

British
documents from the same period, and German records photographed by an American
spy and sent to the British government, said that a number of Nazi agents were
sent to Mandatory Palestine, in order to forge alliances with Palestinian
leaders, and urge them to reject a partition of the land between the Jewish and
Arab populations.

One
Nazi agent, Adam Vollhardt, arrived in Palestine in July 1938,
and was reported to have gained strong influence with Arab leaders, meeting
with Palestinian leaders throughout 1938. Vollhardt
held several meetings with leading Arab politicians and told them “that
the Palestine
question would be settled to the satisfaction of the Arabs within a few
weeks,” adding that “it would be fatal to their
(Palestinians’) cause if at this juncture they showed any signs of
weakness or exhaustion.”

“Germany was interested in the settlement of the
(Palestine)
question on the basis of the Arabs obtaining their full demands,” Vollhardt was reported to say to Palestinian leaders,
according to a report by the British War Office. Vollhardt
also assured Arab leaders that “the Germans could continue to support the
Palestinian Arab cause by means of propaganda.”

German
documents photographed and sent to Whitehall by
an American spy revealed that in 1937, German officials had calculated that
“Palestine under Arab rule would…
become one of the few countries where we could count on a strong sympathy for
the new Germany.”

‘Arabs
admire our Fuhrer’

“The
Palestinian Arabs show on all levels a great sympathy for the new Germany and its Fuhrer, a sympathy whose value
is particularly high as it is based on a purely ideological foundation,”
a Nazi official in Palestine wrote in a letter
to Berlin in
1937. He added: “Most important for the sympathies which Arabs now feel
towards Germany
is their admiration for our Fuhrer; especially during the unrests, I often had
an opportunity to see how far these sympathies extend. When faced with a
dangerous behaviour of an Arab mass, when one said
that one was German, this was already generally a free pass.”

A
second Nazi agent, Dr. Franz Reichart, was reported
to be actively working with Palestinian Arabs by the British Criminal
Investigation Division “to help coordinate Arab and German
propaganda.” Reichart was also head of the
German Telegraphic Agency in Jerusalem.

German
records show that the Nazis viewed the establishment of a Jewish state with
great concern. A 1937 report from German General Consulate in Palestine said:
“The formation of a Jewish state… is not in Germany’s
interest because a (Jewish) Palestinian state would create additional national
power bases for international Jewry such as for example the Vatican State for
political Catholicism or Moscow for the Communists. Therefore, there is a
German interest in strengthening the Arabs as a counterweight against such possible
power growth of the Jews.”

Jewish
refugees abandoned

The
records also show that the news of increased Nazi-Arab cooperation panicked the
British government, and caused it to cancel a plan in 1938 to bring to
Palestine 20,000 German Jewish refugees, half of them children, facing danger
from the Nazis.

Documents
show that after deciding that the move would upset Arab opinion, Britain
decided to abandon the Jewish refugees to their fate.

“His
Majesty’s Government asked His Majesty’s Representatives in Cairo, Baghdad and Jeddah
whether so far as they could judge, feelings in Egypt,
Iraq, and Saudi Arabia against the admission of, say 5,000
Jewish children for adoption… would be so strong as to lead to a refusal
to send representatives to the London
discussions. All three replies were strongly against the proposal, which was
not proceeded with,” a Foreign Office report said.

“If
war were to break out, no trouble that the Jews could occasion us, in Palestine
or elsewhere, could weigh for a moment against the importance of winning Muslim
opinion to our side,” Britain’s Minister for Coordination of Defence, Lord Chatfield, told the British cabinet in 1939,
shortly before Britain reversed its decision to partition its mandate,
promising instead all of the land to the Palestinian Arabs.

Although Great
Britain’s decision, in 1938, to curry favor with the belligerent
Arab population of western Mandatory Palestine, as well as with the larger Arab
and (non-Arab) Muslim worlds, by impeding mass Jewish flight from Nazi
Germany to western Mandatory Palestine constituted a serious breach of
its Mandatory obligations to the Jewish people under the League of Nations
Mandate for Palestine, such informal ad hoc decision-making did not yet represent
a formal and absolute bar to further Jewish immigration.

However, in 1939, in order
to assuage the growing “Palestinian” Arab rage against Great
Britain for having facilitated Jewish immigration to western Mandatory
Palestine, and as its official response to the sustained Arab hostility
and violence towards the Jews of Mandatory Palestine, Great Britain -- with the
tacit support of the United States -- published an infamous manifesto known as
the Palestine White Paper of 1939 (also known as the MacDonald White
Paper).The Palestine White Paper,
which the League of Nations refused to approve, was issued and
implemented by Great Britain, as Mandatory trustee, in rank violation of
its fiduciary obligations to the Jewish people under the Mandate for Palestine,
in that it illegally restricted, and subsequently illegally
barred, Jews who sought to flee Nazi-occupied Europe from
reaching safe haven in the western portion of Mandatory Palestine.

An infamous example of
Great Britain's Arab-compliant crusade against Holocaust-era Jewish
immigration is represented by the Struma Affair which unfolded during Nazi
Germany's 1942 Wannsee Conference (convened by Hitler -- in response to the collective
refusal, with the exception of the Dominican Republic, subsequently joined
by the Philippines, of the World's other nations at the 1938 Evian
Conference to accept even modest Jewish immigration emanating from the
territories then controlled by Nazi Germany -- in order to determine and
implement the final tactical mechanisms for the planned annihilation of the
Jewish people).In the Winter of
1942, the Struma, a 96 square meter and 100 year old barge, packed with almost
800 Jewish refugees, including over 100 infants and other children, fled Romania for Mandatory Palestine, stopping en
route at Istanbul, Turkey. Great Britain, responding
to “Palestinian” Arab pressure, not only publicly declared that
the Struma would be barred from entering the waters of Mandatory Palestine, but
it also prevailed upon Turkey to prohibit the Struma's passengers from
disembarking at Istanbul, the result being that the barge was towed out to sea
without fuel, heating equipment, food or potable water. The next day, the
Struma was destroyed by a torpedo; only one person survived.

Meanwhile, commencing in
1940, Vichy France (as Occupier of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) and fascist
Italy (as Occupier of Libya), both of which were allied with Nazi Germany
during the War, began -- with the indispensable cooperation of local Arab
officials and supportive Arab populations -- to systematically strip the Jews
of North Africa of their civil rights, livelihoods, assets, and access to
public facilities and services (paralleling the dehumanization process which
was already well underway in Nazi Germany as well as in those European
countries under Nazi occupation or hegemony).However, due to delaying tactics
employed by Vichy France’s Governor of Tunisia, this process of
dehumanization was not fully implemented in that country until it was occupied
by Nazi Germany in 1942.Ultimately,
more than 13,000 North African Jews were sent to myriad slave labor camps
scattered throughout Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, staffed by Occupation
officials and local Arabs, where thousands died of disease and starvation,
while others were murdered by camp guards.Moreover, hundreds of Tunisian and Libyan Jews were deported to European
slave labor camps.Only the
Anglo-American invasion of North Africa, resulting in the defection of Vichy
forces and the decimation of the Italo-German army, which surrendered to Allied
forces in 1943, saved North Africa’s Jewish populations, at large,
from eventually joining their European brethren as wholesale victims of
the Holocaust.

Immediately after the
issuance of United Nations General Assembly Resolution no. 181 (II) of November
29, 1947 (commonly known as the “Palestine Partition Plan”), as a
result of their rejection of any Jewish sovereignty in any portion of Mandatory
Palestine, local Arab militias drawn from Arab population centers throughout
the biblical Land of Israel, as well as -- commencing in January 1948 --
hundreds of foreign Arabs and (non-Arab) Muslims who began to infiltrate the
Land as part of the “Arab Liberation Army” created by the Arab
League and commanded by Fawzi el-Kaukji, commenced a
sustained jihad against the Jewish communities there with little interference --
and, sometimes, even with overt assistance -- from Great Britain,
representing an exponential increase in the anti-Jewish violence that had
periodically swept through the Land since the advent of the Mandate in
1920.In fact, from November 30,
1947 through March 31, 1948, almost 1,000 Jews were murdered by Arab
militias who attacked both isolated Jewish villages and Jewish neighborhoods of
mixed cities, as well as Jewish cars and buses travelling on the highways,
regardless of whether they were situated outside or inside of the
Partition Plan lines.

At the outset of this
period, in an effort to isolate and starve the Jewish neighborhoods of
Jerusalem, the Arabs also instituted a blockade of the Tel Aviv –
Jerusalem highway which severed the only road link between the Jewish
neighborhoods of Jerusalem (which were encircled by Arab-controlled territory),
then comprising more than 100,000 Jews (who then constituted more than 60% of
Jerusalem’s population), and the Jewish-populated areas of the
Mediterranean Sea coastal plain.

In the context of the
Arab-Nazi connection, it is telling that many of the terrorists who were
recruited to Mandatory Palestine by the Arab Liberation Army were demobilized Muslim
Nazi soldiers from Bosnia and Kosovo.Moreover, el-Kaukji himself had been a
participant in both the Nazi-financed Arab jihad in Mandatory Palestine
of 1936 - 1939 and the Arab Nazi coup in Iraq of 1941, after which he
took refuge in Nazi Germany for the duration of World War II.

Finally, on May 15, 1948,
the local Arab militias and foreign infiltrators who had been conducting a
jihad against the Jewish communities in the western portion of Mandatory
Palestine since the issuance of the Palestine Partition Plan were joined by the
invading armies of seven Arab countries (-- Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Egypt,
Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen --), all of which attempted to annihilate the
Jewish State within its nonviable 1947 Partition Plan lines.

That same day, commenting
on the goals of the pan-Arab invasion of Israel, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam,
more commonly known as Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League,
infamously declared:

This
will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken
about like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.

It is indisputable that the
“Palestinian” Arabs and their external allies, in addition to being
accomplices to the Holocaust, sought to complete in the Land of Israel
the very annihilation that Nazi Germany had commenced in Europe and North
Africa.

(Jerusalem Post, February
12, 2014) In its August, 2013 edition, the popular and publicly-funded
Palestinian children’s magazine Al Zayzafuna
resumed the practice of publishing homages to Adolf Hitler, despite the fact
that this practice had prompted UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization], in 2011, to cancel its funding for the magazine.
The August, 2013 homage was captioned “Among Hitler’s
Sayings,” and took the form of a list of quaint aphorisms attributed to
the genocidal dictator, with the apparent aim of convincing young readers of
Hitler’s timeless and worldly wisdom. The homage remains in place today,
at the Al Zayzafuna website.

The February, 2011 Al Zayzafuna item that had triggered UNESCO’s de-funding
was the supposedly whimsical tale of a little Palestinian girl to whom Hitler
appears in a dream. During the encounter, Hitler explains to the child,
“I killed them [the Jews] so that you would know that they are a people
who wreaks havoc on Earth.” Hitler then adds, “I ask of you to be
patient and enduring with the torment that Palestine is suffering at their [the
Jews’] hands.”

The story’s intent to
idolize Hitler is confirmed by the company the Hitler character keeps; prior to
encountering Hitler, the dreaming child meets 9th-century Muslim mathematician
al-Khwarizmi, and after meeting Hitler, the child is awed to meet renowned
Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

It is in response to these
compelling (but not isolated) examples of the open embrace of Nazi lore and factless, hate-based rhetoric in officially- linked
Palestinian publications and broadcasts that I have prepared the following
brief explanation of the deliberate process by which Palestinians were
indoctrinated into the Nazi ideology of hate and incitement before and during
WWII.

This process unquestionably
reinforced the anti-Jewish ethos that had, by then, already taken hold in
Palestinian society as a result of centuries of religious indoctrination that
consistently framed Jews as the arch-enemies of early Islam, and the effects of
this process, on both the substance and tone of today’s incitement
against Israel, are plain to see. The information that follows forms the basic
background for my ongoing deep research into as-yet unstudied segments of the
corpus of Arabic-language hate propaganda crafted and disseminated by the Axis
powers.

The Nazi propaganda
directed at the Arab world, in Arabic, during this period was aimed at both
winning support from the leaderships of Arab states and influencing the
sentiments of Arab populations. Dissemination of Nazi propaganda in Arab
countries had its beginnings in the power struggle for dominance in the Middle
East, which included the struggle that developed among England, Italy and
Germany in the mid-1930s.

At the time of this
struggle, Italy and Germany resolved to conduct anti-British and anti-French
propaganda campaigns in the countries then subject to British or French rule.

The main aim of these
campaigns was to stir unrest in the local populations, making it difficult for
the foreign rulers to maintain the order they needed to facilitate their
political and economic penetration of Middle Eastern markets.

In the late 1930s, Nazis
began recruiting Palestinians to engage in espionage and terrorism actions for
which the Nazis would supply funding and weapons. Along with promises of
cooperation, Nazis promised the Arabs that if the war ended in an Axis victory,
Arabs would be given all lands and homes owned by Jews, as well as access to
“beautiful Jewish girls.”

Print-medium
propaganda:Print material in the
form of leaflets, cartoons and local-press advertisements were used as a means
of waging psychological warfare. Sometimes, a propaganda message would be
printed on fake dollar bills or British pound notes, and other in other cases,
millions of Arabic-language leaflets, some dropped from airplanes, were
distributed, bearing promises to Arabs of freedom from the British and the French.
In addition, Arab journalists were bribed by the Nazis to publish hundreds of
Nazi-supportive articles in their local presses, and huge budgets were made
available, by the Nazis, to local propaganda agents, for distribution of their
material and for establishment of local implementing organizations.

The messages contained in
the propaganda materials were intended to serve a variety of ends, among them
1) winning Arab sympathy for the Nazis and their Fuhrer, 2) instigating
unrestrained anti-Jewish attitudes through popularization of the notions that
Jews had robbed Arabs of their money and caused all the destruction then
affecting the Arab world, 3) providing visible support and reinforcement for
Arab nationalist sentiments and aspirations, 4) inciting Arabs against British
or French rule, and against the West, in general, 5) promising to facilitate
independence for every Arab country, and 6) promising access to Arab high
society.

The former mufti of
Jerusalem:The head of the
snake. Inasmuch as the political and governmental machinery of the Axis states
played major roles in administering and devising programming for the propaganda
efforts targeted at Arab populations during the Nazi era, the undisputed
hands-on moving force behind the work was the then former mufti of Jerusalem,
Haj Amin el-Husseini. The mufti had fled to Berlin from the British, in
October, 1941, and, once there, he was promptly granted his own Nazi propaganda
bureau, dubbed “Das ArabischBuro Der Grossmufti.” The
mufti remained in Berlin until the end of the war in April, 1945, and through
his bureau, he personally authorized and controlled the Nazis’ propaganda
in Arabic language.

Hitler’s message
still openly admired by many Arabs today.As recently as in 1999, Hitler’s Mein Kampf
was the sixth best-selling book among Palestinians, according to a survey taken
by the Palestinian newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadida.

In today’s Middle
East, translations of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion still appear
periodically in Arab government agency publications, and the Nazi-era imagery
that this pseudo-historical tract inspired so long ago is alive and well, for
millions of Arab citizens to absorb and believe.

And while it is commonplace
for detractors of Israeli nationhood and policy to label Israelis as Nazis, it
is also de rigueur for them to embrace Jew-hating Nazi formulae and bywords as
a way of inciting their supporters. To wit, in early 2013, Palestinian
Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas included Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, the
above-described architect of Arabic-language hate propaganda for the Nazis, in
a list of martyrs and heroes whom he chose to honor during a televised public
broadcast.

When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a
conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1, 2015, its
proponents wanted to achieve more than merely establish a commemoration of the
ghastly 1941 Arab-Nazi pogrom in Baghdad that killed and injured hundreds of
Iraqi Jews. Farhud means violent dispossession. The Farhudwas but
the first bloody step along the tormented path to the ultimate expulsion of some 850,000 Jews from
across the Arab world. That systematic expulsion ended centuries of Jewish
existence and stature in those lands.

Jews had thrived in Iraq for 2,700 years,
a thousand years before Muhammad. But all that came to end when the mufti of
Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini,
led the broad Arab-Nazi alliance in the Holocaust that produced a military,
economic, political, and ideological common cause with Hitler. Although
Husseini spearheaded an international pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish Islamic movement
from India to Central Europe to the Middle East, it was in Baghdad — a
1,000-kilometer drive from Jerusalem — that he launched his robust
coordination with the Third Reich.

In 1941, Iraq still hosted Britain’s
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which controlled the region’s oil. Hitler
wanted that oil to propel his invasion of Russia. The Arabs, led by Husseini,
wanted the Jews out of Palestine and Europe’s persecuted Jews kept away
from the Middle East. Indeed, Husseini persuasively argued to Hitler that Jews
should not be expelled to Palestine but rather to “Poland,” where
“they will be under active control.” Translation: send Jews to the
concentration camps. Husseini had visited concentration camps. He had
been hosted by architect of the genocide Heinrich
Himmler, and the mufti considered
Shoah engineer Adolf Eichmann not only a great friend, but a
“diamond” among men.

Nazi lust for oil and Arab hatred of Jews
combined synergistically June 1–2, 1941, burning the Farhud
into history. Arab soldiers, police, and hooligans, swearing allegiance to the
mufti and Hitler, bolstered by fascist coup plotters known as the Golden
Square, ran wild in the streets, raping, shooting, burning, dismembering, and
decapitating. Jewish blood flowed through those streets and their screams
created echoes that have never faded.

The 1941 Farhud
massacre, which was launched in tandem with an attempted takeover of the
British oil fields and London’s airbase at Habbaniya,
set the stage for the Mufti-Hitler summit and the establishment of three Islamic and Arab Waffen SS divisions in
central Europe under Himmler’s direct sponsorship. After the State of
Israel was established in 1948, mufti adherents and devotees throughout the
Arab world, working through the Arab League, openly and systematically expelled
850,000 Jews from Morocco to Lebanon. Penniless and stateless, many of those
refugees were airlifted to Israel where they were absorbed and became almost
half the families of Israel.

Remembering the tragic facts of the Farhud process will make it harder for the newly-invented
history to take root. After the Arabs rebranded themselves as
“Palestinians” in May 1964 with the backing of the Soviet KGB, a
new narrative began to come together. In part, it pretends that the Arabs of
Ottoman and then British Palestine did not arrive in the seventh century during
the Arab-Islamic Conquest, as history records. Their narrative now asserts that
are actually descendants of the Canaanites and the Philistines. Palestine is named for the Philistines. After the
Jews were expelled by the Romans in about 135-136 CE, the name of their nation
was changed from Judea to Syria Palaestina. But in
truth, the Israelites gave rise to the only true surviving Canaanites.
The Philistines were Greek Island sea invaders defeated
by Ramses III in about 1150 BCE and sequestered into the Gaza Pentapolis, not
Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula who conquered in the seventh century CE.

Invented Palestinian history also asserts
that present-day Israelis are almost entirely transplants from such alien
regions as the Ukraine, Poland, Brooklyn, and Germany — or descendants
thereof. Remembering the Farhud helps us understand
that almost half the early Jewish families in newly-declared Israel were not
from across the sea, but rather from across the river, across the bridge, down
the road, and plucked from the same culture.

What’s more, the fabricated
Palestinian history laments that Palestine became just a consolation prize for
the Holocaust — a tragedy that either never occurred or was a purely
European misdeed for which Arabs are not responsible and in which they were not
involved. Remembering the 1941 Farhud and the
Arab-Nazi alliance that sparked it, locks in Arab involvement in the Holocaust
as one of full partnership with the Third Reich. This Nazi-Arab alliance
thrived, complete with tens of thousands of Islamic and Arab volunteers
arduously fighting in the trenches, coordinating diplomatic and strategic
affairs through the Arab Higher Committee, broadcasting nightly incendiary hate
messages beginning with words “Oh Muslims,” and undertaking all
things calculated to advance a German victory which promised an Arab state in Palestine and
a disappeared Jewish population. No wonder the Arab marketplaces were
filled with placards that exhorted, “In Heaven, Allah is your ruler. On
Earth, it is Adolf Hitler.”

The established and incontrovertible facts
chronicling the Arab world’s deep and enthusiastic anti-Jewish alliance
with the Third Reich during the Holocaust, which exploded into the Farhud, plus the subsequent population shift that Arab
governments engineered to expel 850,000 of their own Jewish citizens, make it
impossible to weave a fabric of invented history. Recognizing, remembering, and
reminding the world of those facts on International Farhud
Day, June 1, will help all participants and observers of the
Arab-Israeli conflict confront the true legacy that has helped create
today’s stalemate. Recognition is the first step along the painful path
toward reconciliation.